Friday Fun & Interview

I’m super excited to be a featured blogger for this weeks Feature & Follow Friday. Feature & Follow Friday is hosted by Parajunkee’s View and Alison Can Read and is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers.

Question of the week:
Tell us about the most emotional scene you’ve ever read in a book – and how did you react?

Answer:

Bridge of Scarlet Leaves by Kristina McMorris is a very emotional book. Yeah, there are books out there that have sad parts in them but Kristina puts the readers on an emotional roller coaster ride the entire time. It doesn’t help that the story is based off of the events that happened to the Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. And that ending, good lord, I didn’t know I could bawl my eyes out so hard over a book. The second I was finished reading this book I looked up the relocation camp that the characters go to (Manzanar) and found out it’s a 5 hour drive from where I live. I haven’t been there yet, but it’s definitely on my “must list” of things to do before we move.

When did you start blogging?
I started June 2011.

What is your favorite part of book blogging?

Meeting all the new and awesome people to be honest. I would have never in a million years have thought that I would be able to talk with authors. I’m not going to lie, a big perk is getting to read books for free, especially ones that haven’t come out yet but for me it’s awesome to walk through a book store with the Mr. and say, “Oh, she’s really sweet”, “He’s hilarious! By far one of the coolest people out there”, and then the occasional “That author’s such a bitch. They’re the one I was telling you about that blew up at that chick over her review.”

What type of books do you mainly blog about?

I’m a romance junkie, which is funny since I used to make fun of those Fabio book covers when I was younger. Okay… so maybe I still do. I tend to find romance in all stories, for example, Han Solo & Princess Leia, Peter Parker & Mary Jane, and Simba & Nala. So thankfully, I can read a wide variety of books and as long as there is a potential love interest, I’m all in. However, I always give authors of all genres a chance to spread the news about their books on my site. So even though I may review YA, NA, PNR, UF etc… you will still see some other genres pop up. After all, I feel like my “job” is to share books and even though they may not be books that I’d generally read, it doesn’t mean that someone else out there wouldn’t be interested in them.

What is your favorite book(s)?

My favorite series is hands down, Vampire Academy. The ironic part about that though is that I fought my friend when she urged me to read it. I really didn’t want to read yet another vampire book. She persisted, bought the book for my birthday and not even halfway through the book I was ordering the rest of the series online.

What has been the best thing that has happened to you because of book blogging?

I suppose I could say that it saved my sanity. My husband’s in the Marine Corp, so we move around quite a bit and it’s not easy forging new friendships in a new area every couple of years. So for a while there, I was on the verge of making friends with the mailman just so that I had someone to talk to. Now, between my day job at the National Park where I talk all day to visitors and then coming home and typing up reviews/posts and chatting with everyone online, I’m officially all talked out by the end of the day. And as it turns out, even though I am not inviting the mailman in for tea and cookies, both he and the UPS man know me by name and flag me down if I drive by them when they have packages on their truck for me. I guess I order too much stuff online 😛

Congrats on being featured! I really enjoyed reading your interview. I think it’s great making all these friends online that share our passion 😀 I haven’t heard of the book you shared, but it sounds like a great answer. Here is my FF. New Follower 😀 Jaclyn @ JC’s Book Haven

Congrats on being the feature for the week!! I just adore your blog…its so pretty! 🙂 Newest follower. I also just love romance too! Its my favorite love. I haven’t read Bridge of Scarlet Leaves either, but it does sound good. Hope you are having a great weekend so far.

Crazy. A person I work with, their dad was born in one of the camps. He said when his grandparents got out they completely americanized and dropped all of their Japanese culture. That is so sad to me, I can imagine the book is emotional.

The subject of America’s treatment of Japanese-Americans during WWII is one that seems pushed under the rug. Yes, it was terrible. Let’s own up to it. Thanks for bringing this one to my attention. Fllowing via GFC and Twitter.

Congrats on being featured! That book sounds so good and I can imagine it is emotional. I have some clients who were sent to the relocation camp in Idaho, which is actually near where I grew up. I couldn’t imagine going through that. I loved your answers above, especially about befriending the mailman. I couldn’t imagine moving around that much. 🙂

Haven’t read the book either but the interview was great. It is so much fun meeting new people and authors. Plus you get to read lots of books, either free or purchased but you can always find great ones. I haven’t been doing it for long but I love book blogging.

Congrats on being featured! I haven’t heard of the book you mentioned but I’ll have to check it out soon. By the way I see you’ve read Christine Wenrick’s The Charmed, I loved that series! Are you a member of her street team?

Congratulations on being featured! I loved your answers. I never heard of the book before though. I would go check it out but I’m scared if I read it I’ll be an emotional wreck. lol.Thanks for the great giveaway too!

Bridge Of Scarlet Leaves sounds like something I’d love to read. I love reading about history in books and the whole American attack on Japan still makes me shudder. Great answer, I’ll be sure to check out the book!

Congrats on your feature! I agree with you – I never thought I’d get to interact with authors, and I was so nervous when I began. I’m lucky that all of them have been so awesome; I’ve heard some of the horror stories about a few authors giving bloggers a hard time if they get a less than stellar review, to put it mildly.

I have a friend whose husband is in the army, and they move around a lot, too. She tells me the same things you said about being lonely at times and having to make new friends all the time. She usually is at home by herself. Her husband is in Afghanistan right now and won’t be home until the fall. She moved back here with their daughter, and I’m glad she didn’t choose to stay up in New York by herself.

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Hey, guys! I'm Kristin and I love reading all things romance. My reading preference changes based on my mood but if it's got a smidgen of romance in it, I'll read it. Outside of reading I'm a huge animal lover, I love to cook, and I'm currently teaching myself to knit. I love to chat with other readers so feel free to add me on any of my social media platforms.